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As winter’s chill grips the land, Duchess Jacqueline Arienta Xavier journeys north to Lysandeir, where leaders gather to determine the fate of the untamed wilds of Cetachi. But when a young woman dies under mysterious circumstances on the very night the Saphire delegation arrives, Jax senses a sinister force at play. While others dismiss the death as a tragic accident, Jax knows better. With tensions rising and the threat of civil war looming, the Duchess and her allies must navigate the shadowy halls of the stone fortress to unmask a killer—before darkness consumes them all.

The scope and reality of this final volume in the Bearth Trilogy is happening around you right now in the daily news. The wars, the religious genocide, the economic and political corruption are all real. The story is true. The cataclysms are possible. The places are real. None of the names have been changed, because they are all guilty. Only the characters of the story are created to carry you through the events at the ground level. When you finish this final volume of the trilogy, you will never look at life or death the same again. Are you ready for the change?

Sixteen-year-old Alena longs for a world where peasants, servants, and nobles are all equal. Truly, that will never be possible, until the day when she removes a sword from a stone and might have the chance to become queen...if she can rally those same peasants, servants, and nobles behind her.

The gods are dead. Their age-old reign destroyed by sorcery and war. A young queen must steer her people through the wreckage left behind. Queen Ariane trusts her dreams, so listens when a sorceress calls out to her from the void. Ysaren warns the queen must find her missing cousin, Lord Tamersane who vanished after the war. Feared lost in the hostile City of the Clouds. He alone has the strength to wield the legendary bow of Kerasheva against the power-crazed emperor of Ptarni.